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Actor (and possible Doctor Who prospect) Robert Carlyle decries the state of the Scottish “film industry”: “We don’t have a film industry here. I would argue that vehemently. An industry is something that feeds itself and grows. We make one film every 10 years that gets any kind of notice. You can’t call that an industry. Over the past 12 to 15 years I have probably had about five or six scripts that have been Scots films shooting here. Not one of them has f**king happened. I don’t know the answer to that. It’s got to the stage now with my agent, if something Scottish comes in, it has to be financed, otherwise I’m not going to read it because it depresses me.” Carlyle’s big upcoming release is a Hollywood film: the movie for the popular Fox series, 24.(Guardian)

Leona Lewis looks back at her pre-X Factor life: “I think to myself: ‘What was I doing two years ago?’ I was a receptionist. Who used to drive me around two years ago? Me. Now I’ll be given lovely dresses to wear and lovely hotels to stay in and think: ‘Two years ago, if I was given this, oh my God, I’d have fainted.'”(Daily Mail)

How have The Ting Tings been handling their post-“That’s Not My Name” success?(The Times)

The Daily Telegraph‘s Hilary Alexander writes, “Having trawled through several thousand images of Madonna taken over the last 12 or 15 years, I have come to the conclusion, reluctantly, perhaps, that Madonna simply has no style. Either that or she really hates clothes.”

Gavin & Stacey‘s Joanna Page says the show’s Christmas special, is, well “very Christmassy and it’s all revolved around the family. It’s very, very funny. There’s some lines in it that I just thought, ‘Oh my God, that’s what my dad said last year. So true to life but really heart-warming as well.”(BBC)